When I wasn’t fighting it, the water rose to support me.
Introducing the Are.na Annual, vol. 7 | Are.na Editorial
This year’s anthology, themed “pool,” is now available.
Training a vision model, or how I learned to stop worrying and love dataset curation
Note: this is not some beginners guide, or how-to. Its an experiment in high dimensional space manifold gymnastics. Quick links to the model and dataset if you don’t care for the narrative version: This is the Badger Model 55 Water Meter: This thing sucks to read. Get down on your knees, enjoy the cement floor of a dark basement room, pull out a flash light and just try to guess if water is leaking from somewhere. The water company knows what they bill you, but your costs jump around li...
The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows us to convey our ideas, but the very act forces us to test and distill them — at once making our ideas more robust while providing the vehicle by which to share them.
Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions with Kelly Erhart
Listen to Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions with Kelly Erhart from The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens wherever you get your podcasts!
Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought
An essay on LLMs as a cognitive medium
The Friction I Don't Want to Lose
I love learning. And while the friction of solving new problems is increasingly traded for speed, the experience gained by overcoming that friction is as important as ever.
I Do Not Accept Your TOS - Tynan's Leaflets
W is proof that the ecosystem is working
Correcting climate ‘misperceptions’ may not boost climate action - Carbon Brief
Most people "underestimate" general support for climate change and "overestimate" actual, real-world climate action.
The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
Aqua Coast — your coaster log
Log every roller coaster you've ridden — stored in your own AT Protocol PDS.
What a community taught an AI about itself: Conservation Technology with Arte & Escola na Floresta
By Nurfatin Hamzah, Diego Rivera, David Dao & Arte & Escola na Floresta
(PDF) The Drain of Scientific Publishing
PDF | The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE
“I’ve hit my limit of what I’m willing to tolerate”
Value(s): building a better world for all
A bold, urgent argument on the misplacement of value in…
